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Blog Traffic Up 54.87% in the Last 30 Days: Our Proven Traffic Improvement Strategy

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UPDATE: 9/19/09 ProBlogger Guest post I Came, I Saw, I Commented: Was It Worth It by Josh Hanagarne – The World’s Strongest Librarian – provides this additional confirmation that commenting does indeed work. He gives these stats:

The numbers after commenting:

  • A 100% increase on RSS subscribers (160-320)
  • Over 40 newsletter subscriptions
  • A second traffic spike due to people returning to answer my comment on their own blogs

Note that HIS strategy was commenting on the blogs of those who commented on his previous ProBlogger guest post. Imagine what could happen if he had used the additional strategy explained below. Maybe he’ll read this, try it out, and let us know what additional growth his blog sees from it.

UPDATE: 3/23/09 I thought some might be interested to know that the Google Analytics default view (which compares the most recent 30 days to the previous 30 days) now shows traffic is now up 76.63%. This traffic is almost exactly evenly split with one third coming from Direct, one-third from search engines, and one-third from referring sites.

Want proof this strategy works for others too? Check out these two Tweets I received today (Mar 23, 2009):

PaulHassing@GrowMap Thank YOU! Yesterday my site traffic was double what it was last Monday. All I did differently was follow your advice. Great stuff!

PaulHassing@GrowMap It’s nice (& rare) to see an approach which is ethical & practical having an effect. For once, good guys don’t finish last! šŸ™‚

ORIGINAL POST BELOW

What if there were a simply action you could take whenever you have a few minutes that would benefit the other blogs you visit and increase your own blog traffic too? Would you be interested enough to act on it and see if it works for you too?

Here is the step-by-step method responsible for the increase in traffic here:

  1. Visit your favorite blog, preferably a dofollow CommentLuv blog.
  2. Leave a high quality comment.
  3. If the blog uses CommentLuv select the most relevant post to share or a post you wish to promote.
  4. In a CommentLuv blog you can leave two links in a comment by changing the primary link JUST BEFORE you click submit. When you’re ready to send the comment paste the other link into the box and immediately send the comment BEFORE the CommentLuv system loses your selected post.
  5. AFTER you’ve left your comment share the post at Twitter, FriendFeed, cliKball, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us or on any other favorite Social Networking site or reader.
  6. When sharing use an excerpt, image and title illustrating what YOU feel is the most pertinent information in the post. This will increase the number of new visitors the post will receive – and the number of readers who may read your comment or be interested in your featured post.
  7. I often also share the best comment(s) or additional thoughts at cliKball and FriendFeed.

We all have limited time and the same number of hours in any day so maximizing the return on how we spend that time is critical to our success. If you already have quality content on your blog and a recent post worth sharing it is time to focus on getting quality backlinks from commenting to greatly increase your traffic.

NEW: If you don’t fully understand how CommentLuv works or haven’t registered your blog take the time to read this excellent post with screen shots on How CommentLuv works and the benefits of registering your site.

Combine our strategy above with the one from that last link to Peter Lee’s Work from Home blog and your time is guaranteed to generate incoming links, better search engine placement, higher visibility and more traffic to your blog.

For a more advanced strategy read How I Doubled the Pageviews of my Blog in Two Week – That post opens in a new window to make sure that BEFORE you do that you START immediately increasing your own traffic here:

The best way to learn something is to do enough of it that you will remember how and it will become a habit. The great thing about this strategy is that you can easily get started RIGHT NOW:

  1. Just leave a comment in this post; the early commentators get the most exposure so go ahead and leave it now. It won’t take that long since you’re already here.
  2. Be sure to include a link to your blog post. Make it your most recent post, the most related post, one you want to promote most OR one that your readers like best.
  3. If you have a Twitter account here is an easy way:Ā  Just click this Tweet This!
  4. Then share it in your other Social Networking accounts and share it in your reader. The more you share the more it benefits you and everyone else.
  5. BONUS VISITORS: If you want even more traffic publish your results and link to this post. We’ll find your new post, leave our own comments, and share it at Twitter, FriendFeed and cliKball.

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DoFollow CommentLuv KeywordLuv Blogs With Comments Moderated by GrowMap

I approve more comments to support small businesses, good causes and bloggers than most bloggers so being active in our blogs is to your benefit. They are all 100% dofollow from the first comment and have both CommentLuv and KeywordLuv installed:

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Gail Gardner

Small Business Marketing Strategist at GrowMap
Gail Gardner is the founder of GrowMap.com. She is a Small Business Marketing Strategist who mentors small businesses, bloggers, and freelancers. After 23 years in the field with IBM and 5.5 years managing AdWords accounts, her focus shifted to small business marketing strategy. GrowMap.com is listed by Cision as a Top 100 Site for Marketers and has received three Small Business Influencer Awards from Small Business Trends. Named by D&B a Top 50 SMB Influencer on Twitter, you can follow Gail @GrowMap and on LinkedIn.
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Comments

  1. It’s nice to read your update about the boost in traffic you got from the tactic you blogged about. Sometimes blog posts are just left to linger there, but I appreciate the updates to show what works and what doesn’t. Thanks for the news!

  2. Yah this theory realy does work , thanks for the share .
    .-= Dotx@Boost Traffic´s last blog ..Boost Traffic To Your Website/Blog =-.

  3. I am definitely going to try this out. Thanks for the instructions and demonstrations.
    .-= meka@earning money online´s last blog ..30 Ways to Earn Money Online =-.

  4. Great tips Gail, this is a sound strategy, and of course, as you said, after a while it just be becomes habit. Thank you!!

  5. thanks for sharing the information about traffic improvement strategy and this will really help me to get a lot of traffic
    .-= jim@smoothfitness coupons´s last blog ..daj654 =-.

  6. My blog has been in a stagnet pool for about a year now. Despite my efforts to reach out and be social it seems I am not getting any new traffic.
    These tips sound excellent and I plan on giving them a try to breathe some life into the blog.

    • Hi Tracy,

      This will definitely work; the challenge is locating and compiling a list of blogs that are best suited for consistent visits for your comments. I am still working to come up with a great way to keep track of commenting.

      You will also want to get your blog registered in the best Blog Directories. Watch for a new post with the top 25-30 ranked by traffic and importance very soon.

      If your current blog isn’t popular today you may want to select a different niche. I don’t keep up with diet products but I know they are often fads that come and go. There are many new tools for quickly creating a store in a WordPress blog that make it possible to write about something you are passionate about and sell items related to that passion.
      .-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Instantly Acquire 76 High Quality Incoming Links =-.

  7. I do not know where you find the time to get all this great information and comment everywhere you are a one woman wonder
    .-= Murray Newlands´s last blog ..Clickbooth Live Like A Super Affiliate Charity Contest =-.

    • Thank you Murray.

      It is not easy, believe me. It takes continual recentering to keep from feeling overwhelmed with all the research I’m working to pull together and write up in an easily understood manner.

      When I get all the processes into one Master Workbook I will be so relieved to be pretty much done researching and focusing on using it to apply to specific blogs and businesses.

      Did you see the Best of GrowMap post I published? It makes it far easier to quickly refer to the most important research posts I’ve done here.
      .-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Best of GrowMap: Our Pillar Foundation Content =-.

  8. Thanks for sharing these tips. I will follow this things and take a look if these are effective for me.
    .-= chicco high chairs´s last blog ..Chicco Baby Products ā€“ Introduction =-.

    • Hi Chicco,

      Do you know there are many hugely successful Mommy Bloggers. Their blogs would be the perfect places for you to comment and then share their posts. If you don’t use StumbleUpon I highly recommend it – and the more diverse URLs you share there the better.

      Watch for a new post on how to maximize your effectiveness on Social Networking sites by combining this strategy with reviews on StumbleUpon that get fed to Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and Delicious.
      .-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How to Evaluate a Merchant Gift Affiliate Program =-.

  9. Great post. Common sense way of increasing traffic. Well thought out and easy instructions to follow! Keep up the great content!
    .-= Parag Paleja´s last blog ..Use The Same System We Use, We Will Be Your Guides. =-.

  11. All the success tips that you mentioned in post regarding Traffic Improvement Strategy are very useful and also overy handy, as i will definitely go with these tips.

    Thanks

  14. I must say , this is really great technique to increase traffic to your blog. And if possible try to select only those blogs which have top commentator slot.
    This will probably help you in getting more and more traffic.

  15. You provide some of the best information available, thank you. A lot of my questions are getting answered here without me having even to ask!
    .-= Manie @ Web Monster Hosting´s last blog ..Choosing the Best Place to Host a Website =-.

    • Hello Keries,

      I assure you that it really does work. I haven’t done it lately because it is time-consuming and fills up my email inbox; however, I will use it again when I get some major projects completed and have more time.

      Any time you have a really great post to share is a great time to test it.
      .-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..Success IS a Numbers Game =-.

  17. I agree though that it would make sense to put a relevant link if you have one – obviously none of mine are relevant here!

    • Since my primary purpose is to assist any business in growing – and I am more concerned with real people than with the actions of the search engines – I have no problem with leaving links in my comments that are not extremely relevant.

      Any business that has a blog can create a relevant post if they don’t already have one. For example, they could test this strategy to grow their own business by visiting and commenting in blogs that are related to them. For a car transport that could be any business related to buying automobiles, shipping classic cars, car shows, relocating for business, moving because you’re retiring, etc.

      Then you could write about your results and add a comment here about how well that worked for you. I know that is more work so each individual must decide when it is worth doing that and when it isn’t. This example might not be important for you but getting a link from one of the related sites I just suggested could be – especially if their potential clients are also yours.

      If the site in question has a huge amount of traffic, or is dofollow, or has CommentLuv or KeywordLuv installed it can be worthwhile. Did you see the DoFollow Tools and Lists we provide? You can use them to find relevant do follow blogs to comment in.
      .-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How to Optimize Your PPC Advertising to Benefit YOU =-.

  18. You have good points here,and I never thought about Twitter
    although my posts go straight to twitter from my blog…
    .-= jo@reviewsandadspace´s last blog ..How to write novels: Five Rules of Writing =-.

    • Hi Jo,

      Some Tweets from Twitter are ending up in the organic search engines. Some of us are trying to figure out which ones, why, and how long they’ll stay there. Even when they don’t Twitter is a good way to drive more visitors to any blog post.
      .-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How Much Is A Memorable Logo Worth? =-.

  19. Hi,
    I have just started using Commentluv but am a little stuck on your points (3) and (4). I have registered my blog with Commentluv but do not seem to be able to select a post other than my last one. Am I missing something?
    I guess point (4) will become clearer when I’ve got (3) sorted so I will try it then.
    Here’s hoping you can help.
    Many thanks,
    Chloe
    .-= Chloe @ Ben 10 Toys´s last blog ..An Expat Buying Toys In Europe =-.

    • Hi Chloe,

      CommentLuv showing only your latest post and not letting you select a different one usually occurs when you haven’t claimed your blog on the ComLuv.com site. (Note that they recently changed domains.) Are you still seeing that problem?

      Point 4 is a little tricky. You have to first use your Website address EXACTLY as you registered it with CommentLuv, wait for the list of posts to appear and select one, and then paste your other link into the Website field and enter the comment BEFORE CommentLuv’s system has time to change your CommentLuv featured post.

      If you don’t do that fast enough you’ll lose the CommentLuv post and have to start over using your CommentLuv registered URL in the Website field.
      .-= Internet Strategist @GrowMap´s last blog ..How to Add Your Free Business Listing to infoUSA =-.

      • Hi,
        Many thanks for this. As I said before I registered my blog with Commentluv but hadn’t ‘claimed’/created a new blog subdomain on their site. I realised this yesterday and did just that and can now choose one of my last 5 posts.
        Point (4) is certainly tricky. Before reading your reply I thought I had to change the post I was selecting just before pressing submit which I tried and failed at yesterday as I couldn’t beat their update! Now I realise this was completely wrong and will try putting the other post in the website field now! Here goes!
        Thanks again, Chloe
        .-= Chloe @ Ben 10 Toys´s last blog ..Through A Childā€™s Eyes =-.

        • Hi Chloe,

          The reason I suggested doing that was so that you can share the most relevant post even when it is not one of your most recent posts and therefore not available to be featured by CommentLuv.

          It is a little tricky but I see you did successfully add the other link. Some blogs object to leaving a link other than your home page; however, I feel it is best for my readers (and me) if commentators are free to link to the post they feel is most relevant to the current discussion or the one they most wish us to visit.

          Thanks for hanging in there and figuring out what I meant. I do my best to make it clear; however, until you’ve actually tried it that might not be as easy as I would hope! I’m off to share your posts at Twitter.
          .-= Internet Strategist@GrowMap´s last blog ..How to Get Your Free Business Listing in Yelp =-.

          • Hi,
            Yeh I did it! I didn’t realise people might mind if you put a URL other than your home page so will bear that in mind. I agree though that it would make sense to put a relevant link if you have one – obviously none of mine are relevant here!
            Thanks for the tweet.
            Cheers, Chloe
            .-= Chloe @ Ben 10 Toys´s last blog ..Why Eating Bogeys Is Good For You =-.

  20. I appreciate this, good to have this traffic strategy, I like the steps also to get the traffic on the site….going to apply it very ssoon to have the traffic on my site too….

    Thanks for letting us know through your post…..

    Snvā€™s last blog post..Ethical SEO Factors

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  22. Very useful steps which may lead to benefit the site for getting the link juice and also to have the better position for that keyword….i will definitely going to apply one of these steps….to get traffic on the site….

    Snvā€™s last blog post..Ethical SEO Factors

  23. Hello, this topic is really great and very timely to my query. anyway, I just noticed there arenā€™t any list of the Do-Follow blogs anymoreā€¦but Iā€™ve got a question [I’m still kinda new in d seo thingy] if you could assist me with. Are ā€œNo-Followā€ links completely irrelevant to google? cos there was a site i pasted a link on, i clearly saw it was a ā€œno-followā€ link [with the seo firefox thing] but google soon acknowledged it, and credited me for it.

    • Hi Nicholas,

      Here they are: DoFollow Tools and Lists Even though they’re called nofollow these links are not completely irrelevant and apparently they do get followed at least by some search engines. They just don’t get nearly as much “juice” as the SEOs would say.

      InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..How to Create a Successful Blog Based Business Part 1

  24. Do you have any other stats? No offense, but traffic being up 54% is not really that useful. If you had 10 people visit and you increased it by 50% that means you just added 5. I mean it’s good to increase, but I guess I’m just curious how many people that really is. My traffic went up just 9% last month, but quantity-wise that’s about 2,000 more visitors by just adding content, launching a new e-Book, sending out a newsletter to my mailing list, and tweeting more. If this tactic increased my numbers by 10, in quantity, I’d be wasting a lot of time, know what I mean? Just curious exactly what you mean. Thanks!

    Nicoleā€™s last blog post..Baby Temperament and Sleep Series: Mood

    • Hi Nicole,

      You can see the traffic any site gets using SEOBook’s SEO Toolbar. I shared a screen capture of my unique visitors in one of my recent blog posts. I’ll use it as the CommentLuv featured post for this reply.

      You can see the average unique visitors Compete showed in March was 6596 per month. Unique visitors in April jumped to 13,478.

      In May I was having Internet access issues ( Never Ever Use HughesNet!) so I posted less frequently and was not using my commenting strategy. Traffic in May dropped back down to 6,053.

      InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..Freelancer Challenges – Logo Graphic Designers

        • Hello Nicole,

          I do my best to answer all comments in my blogs and will continue to do so until sheer numbers make it impossible. I am also following you at Twitter and follow all my commentators there. That is one of the reasons we added the Twitter ID field to our comments.

          Using baby products for a Father’s Day giveaway is a unique idea. Best of luck with your promotions.

          Internet Strategistā€™s last blog post..How to Create a Successful Blog Based Business Part 1

  25. Hello Tina,

    The more specific your comments and the more obvious it is that you read and understood the post where you leave them the better this will work.

    InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..New Type of Scraped Comment Blog Spam

  26. this seems to be a good strategy to raise the traffic using comment luv.thanks for sharing the strategy.

    • Are Lava Lamps making a comeback in the UK? Interesting. This strategy works; however, it requires a major investment of time. Best results occur with consistent use and periodic use will work too.

      InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..How to Create a Successful Blog Based Business Part 1

  27. Ethical bloggers do have overheads Iā€™ve felt this overhead during my research as well as in my writings. Placing ads at the bottom sounds like a great place where people will click on relevant ads. Iā€™ve noticed this in a few niche websites Iā€™ve been studying Iā€™ll move the ads tonight.

    I can’t stand it when a website makes its ads look like there the links I was on a plant website last week that got me to click on ad because I thought it was there content navigation. Unethical and poor I’d rather try and fail than go down that route.

    Iā€™ve been researching blogging for three months now, that and other things. What Iā€™m getting at is thereā€™s definitely an overhead that without ad support is only good for hobbyist. Iā€™m more going towards the full time website owner running multiple sites. The other sites Iā€™ve started will be more niche websites with affiliate products or product sales but the overhead is still the same, I have to research everything, write quality content (just learned this, da) and study how things are going. Itā€™s a process that Iā€™m having a lot of fun learning. Iā€™ve started a site on some very specific plants (I have friends in the biz) and another website will go up soon on a friends area of expertise (very wide open too under 10K result pages with ads showing and a good search volume) the great thing about that site is heā€™s going to write the content, I just have to figure out what keywords to target.

    As always itā€™s a pleasure

    Jeffā€™s last blog post..What’s Jeff’s Scam, Niche Marketing

    Jeffā€™s last blog post..List of DoFollow Social Bookmarking Sites

    • Hi Jeff, You’re on the right track. I believe that sites with quality content that gives readers a reason to keep coming back that offer affiliate products they can honestly recommend without reservation will become profitable.

      You can only trick people into clicking on ads so many times before they leave forever. That is not an ethical business model nor one that will continue to grow.

      InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..Do YOUR Blogging Goals Include Monetization: Benefits Our Readers Receive

  28. Before using KeywordLuv, CommentLuv, NoFollowFree, the traffic of my blog was about 1 unique visitors per day, it was mostly me tho. (lol) But then when I add these 3 plugins now I’m getting around 100 unique visitors per day. It is awesome! It’s not huuuuuuge but man it have made such a difference!

    Thalesā€™s last blog post..Maverick Money Makers Reviewed – The Truth

    • Hello Thales. Yours is a great testimonial to the power of interacting with your readers. Who wouldn’t prefer to spend their time where their opinions are valued, their thoughts acknowledged and their questions answered?

      InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..New Type of Scraped Comment Blog Spam

  29. I will defiantly start using Twitter, FriendFeed and cliKball. I’ve heard so much about how twitter drives traffic up though the roof the other two i havenā€™t heard of but will look into them.

    CommentLuv sounds so great I wish I’d done a little more research into what blogging platform to use before I setup my website; I use BlogEngine.net that to my knowledge doesn’t support CommentLuv. On the upside I can write extensions for BlogEngine.net like CommentLuv that’s why I choose BlogEngine.net it’s written in C# and I’m a .net developer. Out of the box blogEngine.net doesn’t set a nofollow on anchor text which is good for any one commenting on my website.

    I’m new to blogging and just learned how important it is to write well thought out comments on peoples posts for my first couple of months I was writing comments like “thanks” and moving on the next blog. Comments like that don’t bring new visitors to your blog… I didn’t know. The other important thing I just learned is to write longer more in depth posts. Ahā€¦ but both techniques are just recently learned and are just coming into practice. Learning the ups and downs has been fun driving traffic up is a very important topic thanks for helping me out.

    Being new I’m still trying to find the area I want to pursue the most as of now I have two active blogs. http://www.ScamResearchCenter.com and http://www.CodeResearchCenter.com having two blogs has allowed me to keep my readers happy by only providing content there interested in.

    Jeffā€™s last blog post..List of DoFollow Social Bookmarking Sites

    • Glad to have you here Jeff. It is a constant learning experience for all of us. I write what I do because I have so many questions and getting to the answers takes so much time that I record them here. I do that partly for my readers and partly so the next time I need to do something I have documented how to do it in an easy to locate place.

      It is wise to have more than one blog if you write about subjects with little overlap. Yours are both good niches – one broader for the general public and one only for coders who are definitely a different set of people most of the time.

      Many plugins were written by bloggers who wanted the functionality and then shared with others. You could start writing plugins for BlogEngine and then sharing them. I had not even heard of that particular platform before.

      I noticed on your dofollow post that you have AdSense ads between the title and the content of that post. While I know that many recommend doing that I strongly suspect it will reduce the number of incoming links your posts will get. I avoid linking to posts that do that. I have a very popular dofollow post featured in the Most Popular section here.

      I can’t speak for anyone else but I read the post first and THEN might be interested in a related ad. I rarely click on an ad before I find out whether that post provides what I am seeking and by the time I read it I probably won’t think to scroll back up (because I am working in multiple tabs and windows at once).

      Inexperienced or less intelligent Internet users will often click on whatever is nearest the top. Bloggers must ask themselves whether the purpose of their blog is getting blind ad clicks or offering posts that get read.

      InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..How to Create a Successful Blog Based Business Part 1

      • What you wrote makes perfect sense and I can’t believe I didn’t consider where my ads should go. I wasn’t getting that many ad clicks and I think you just explained why. Thanks for the advice I’ll move my ads.

        Having ads at the top was a quick and easy way of making sure ads show on every page but as you just explained there not useful at the top for a more advanced user, as I write this I realize having ads at the top makes no sense. Iā€™ll do some research as to good ad placement.

        Things like this are what make blogging great.

        Iā€™m off to the dofollow post

        Jeffā€™s last blog post..List of DoFollow Social Bookmarking Sites

        • Hi Jeff, I suspect you will find many who suggest putting them at the top and that is very likely why you did it. I had a site that did well with AdSense and I put them just below the main content where they would be visible after they read that page.

          Personally I believe that is the best place for them because they are available for additional information. Having ads where you had them makes a site look like it was primarily created solely to generate ad income. Not only will it make an incoming link less likely; it will also cause many people to simply click away.

          The sad truth is the best way to maximize ad income is to trick people into clicking on ads. I just visited a site that had their own links really small and extremely close to ad links. That is one way; however, it also tends towards the unethical.

          I am eternally hopeful that people will appreciate valuable content and remember who has provided it when they are interested in buying something. Ethical bloggers do have overheads so hopefully their readers will make an effort to remember them.

          InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..WordPress 2.7 Threaded Comments Works In Thesis

  30. I have always done your first step of leaving quality comments but I had never thought of trying to promote that post on twitter so that more people read their post – meaning more people read your comment. That is not such a bad idea!

    • Hi Tom. I haven’t seen anyone else write about this idea; however, one blogger did say it was obvious to them. I believe this idea is beneficial for everyone. Your taking the time to comment in their blog is a stronger endorsement than just Tweeting it and if they use Comment Luv those reading it will be far more likely to visit the post you share.

      Your followers at Twitter and elsewhere will get more quality content to read and it is less intrusive than continually sharing your own content as some new users may do. Imagine how much growth the best blogs would see if everyone did this?

      InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..WordPress 2.7 Threaded Comments Works In Thesis

  31. Thanks for these tips, I will give them a try and see what happens. Does the 2 links trick still work? It looks like the plugin has been updated since then.

    • Welcome Neftale – Yes, I have been using two links all day today so it does still work. CommentLuv works by checking the EXACT URL you use for them so it must be there to select one of your last ten posts. When your comment is ready you can change the Website link and immediately hit Submit and there will be two links. I do it here all the time.

      Did you notice we just turned on the WP 2.7 Threaded Comments feature?

  32. @Nicole Thank you for the Digg. I haven’t been active there in ages. I hope it works well for you. It can make it challenging to keep up with all the emails from new comments in other blogs.

    @Garret Tricky! I found your Twitter profile @garret35 instead of @garret35Gen – at least I hope that is you. Let me know how it works for you?

    InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..Do YOUR Blogging Goals Include Monetization: Benefits Our Readers Receive

  33. Genius, I love that. I will try it out and see how much better my traffic is.

    Cheers

    Garretā€™s last blog post..It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since “Colombine”

  34. Great info! Already started to test out the strategy and submitted this in digg!

    Nicole

    NicoleMunozā€™s last blog post..Social Media Marketing – Social Media Marketing for Growth

  35. @Hectic Good to have you as a regular here. If you ever have any specific questions or I can be of assistance feel free to contact me. If you would like me to email you just ask in any comment.

    InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..Why You Can NOT Rely Solely on Organic Search Listings for Traffic and Revenue

  36. @Jason Think larger and more creatively. What about all the blogs covering home improvement, construction, and remodeling?

    What about car related blogs on body work, custom painting, automobile racing (they’re always having to repaint the damage), boats – anything you paint.

    There might even be some type of artists who could use your sprayers – maybe they paint murals and need a large background color as a canvas.

    Think of everyone who would have a reason to use your products and find blogs – preferably those using CommentLuv and dofollow – and answer questions and make comments. Link your answers to the most relevant page on your site. You could write blog posts that answer their questions and link to those.

    InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..Promote Your Business Without Cash

  37. My problem is that there are not that many blogs about paint sprayers šŸ˜‰ Oh well…I am sure I can find a way to leverage this for traffic. Thanks for the info.

    Jasonā€™s last blog post..Titan xt250

  38. @vitaligo You will only want traffic that is interested in the subject of your Web site. Be wary as many will gladly charge you for traffic that will do you no good at all.

    I will email you at the address you used when you commented so that I can answer your other questions.

    InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..REVIEW: Mastering Google Analytics – Easy to Understand FREE eCourse

  39. Sounds like a smart bloke to me šŸ˜‰

    Sireā€™s last blog post..Thesis Theme Is Just Not Flexible Enough

  40. @Sire Not to worry. Derek is happily married and would like to stay that way which is why he hasn’t had time to add threaded comments here. He is wise enough to make his family a higher priority than blogging. šŸ™‚

    InternetStrategistā€™s last blog post..Social Media: Valuable Investment or a Waste of Your Valuable Time? Your Thoughts?

  41. Derek? Who the hell is Derek. Damn it IS, it takes me forever to find out that you are a female, and then before I can even start to work my charms on you this unknown factor is brought into the equation. šŸ˜€

    Sireā€™s last blog post..Thesis Theme Is Just Not Flexible Enough

  42. @Mitch Adding threaded comments IS on the to-do list and Derek will get to it when he can make the time. Unfortunately I don’t know how to manage my own plugins or update WP so I depend on others who have those skills to handle those tasks for me.

    Derek is extremely busy and a blog more likely to make money faster is our priority. No one will be happier to get threaded comments here than me. Trying to figure out which I’ve replied to by scrolling up and down isn’t so much fun.

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  43. By the way, IS, I’m thinking that it might be time to add a threaded comments plugin. lol

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  44. @Kevin You’re very fortunate or in a high demand niche if “sales just happen”. Congratulations. If you ever wish to find others interested in your niche then Twitter might be useful for that.

    @Dana So far none of the bloggers whose blogs are larger or more established than mine have indicated that they thought to do this. Some of them don’t use Social Networking much. One thing I probably should have mentioned is this is extremely time-consuming so only those who can invest much time online will find it most useful.

    @Paul Good to have you here. I’m spreading my time between Social Networking, commenting, and another blog so posts are not daily, but sometimes come in flurries here.

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  45. Golly! This sure seems to be working for you. Congratulations. I look forward to reading your other posts. Best regards, P. šŸ™‚

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  46. Good Information. it’s a pretty obvious strategy. But I guess it’s like they say… common sense isn’t too common.

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  47. Twitter? It just seems such a waste of time.

    I don’t buy traffic, I don’t participate in traffic exchanges, I don’t send out spam emails, I don’t engage in questionable or black hat tactics, I seldom seek JV partners, I never seek inbound links, I blog when I feel like it, my SEO happens automatically,

    I don’t solicit sales, sales just happen.

    Regards

    Kevin

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  48. @Dennis LOL – I do both. I only add a second link when I have something particularly relevant to share.

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  49. Of course, all the better if one does both. šŸ˜‰

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  50. @Mitch Thanks for the clarification. The great thing about the Internet is we can both have precisely what we want: some can do it your way and others can do it mine. As you say, it is just a preference.

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  51. IS, what I prefer is to only have to deal with my last 10 posts and not add a different link other than what CommentLuv is already giving. One, I don’t want to have to go searching back through all my old posts to find one that might suit whatever I happen to be commenting on; I do that already with my own posts. Two, I figure if my last 10 posts aren’t representative enough of what I write about to encourage people to stop by, then an older post won’t do it either. Yes, I know you’re doing it, as a commenter, for your own purposes, but I’d rather go back through my own posts and deep link from within.

    Not saying you’re doing anything wrong, just a preference.

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  52. @Sire I’m not sure what you’re looking at but if you can tell me I’ll look at it. Yes, CommentLuv DOES do that but only for your last ten posts.

    What Dennis and I are saying is that CommentLuv would be far more useful if we could share the most relevant post which is likely NOT to be one of the last ten. I do recognize that might greatly increase the demand on CommentLuv resources.

    @Mitch What specifically do you prefer that Andy suggested? That we put the related link in the body of the post? The reason we don’t is that then the blogger has to either moderate it or find it among the SPAM and rescue it.

    One very friendly but busy blog we frequent has stopped reviewing comments that Akismet marks as SPAM because she gets so many comments it was too time-consuming.

    It is very challenging for those of us who comment actively to keep up with the preferences of each individual blogger regarding links / nolinks, keywords / no keywords, comment policies, etc. We do the best we can.

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  53. Thank you very much for those ideas. I just started my blog and honestly I do not know much about increasing traffic. It’s great to find useful ideas like this. Thank you again.

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  54. I think it’s an interesting idea, and I like Andy’s take on it myself. I don’t pay any attention to how someone might do that on my blog, as I know it’s been a recommended tactic to use for years, way before CommentLuv came up. I don’t see me doing it, though.

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  55. Perhaps I was wrong, what looked like two links could be one very long link?

    I’m confused about all this deep-linking; Isn’t that what commentluv does naturally anyway, deep-ling to an actual page?

    Sireā€™s last blog post..Googles Interest-Based Advertising Sucks

  56. You’re welcome. šŸ™‚

    Yes linking to relevant posts no matter what the age is a practice all bloggers should accustom to; especially on their own blogs, but elsewhere as well.

    Dennis Edellā€™s last blog post..Do You Charge For Blog Reviews?

  57. @Sire Yes, some CommentLuv blogs could be nofollow. Dennis shared a Firefox plugin that lets you easily tell which are and which are dofollow.

    The key to getting two links to STAY in the post is that you must change the primary Website URL and IMMEDIATELY submit the comment BEFORE the CommentLuv has time to change the other one.

    Did you check two links that I put anywhere or the ones in the examples in a comment I suggested above? I just confirmed that the two links do indeed take me to the two posts I selected.

    Can you offer an example of where it doesn’t work? Note that I do NOT do this in every comment – only when there is a post relevant to where I’m commenting that is too old for CommentLuv to pick up.

    @Dennis Thanks for the clarification on duplicate content. This discussion is a great example of how much bloggers can benefit from exchanging experiences and knowledge.

    I’ve been mentioning the categories on my site in comments and posts so more people are aware that there is a ton of information here that they could be interested in.

    Thank you for confirming that bloggers are more likely to approve a deep link in the Website field than a link left in the body of a comment. That has been my experience – and leaving it in the body makes more moderating work for the other blogger.

    LOL. Fifty might be good – or all of them. Unlike some blogs that are about breaking news or content that is quickly dated, our posts are often still relevant for years.

    I often share older posts on Social Networking sites in my travels across the blogosphere. Sometimes I mention they’re “oldies but still goodies” – sometimes I don’t. That probably annoys the brilliant people with photographic memories who only want to see what happened today and think last week’s posts are too old.

    I figure there are a lot more ordinary folks who will benefit from them!

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  58. @Andy – Indeed you may be biased from too much spam lol. I too check URL’s for funniness, but that’s mainly for sales or affiliate pages, which I do not allow if I catch it.

    Two primary reasons I deep link in the URL field…

    1. It compliments the post I’m commenting on (the best for both parties). Remember, MANY bloggers still don’t see value in quality links being left within the comment itself and will delete it all.

    2. A post I do want readers to see, yet it may be past the point of CommentLuv (remember when I asked you to make it like 50? LOL).

    Dennis Edellā€™s last blog post..Do You Accept Guest Posts? Get Your Name On The List šŸ˜‰

  59. @IS – Yep duplicate content, and the worst kind. Dupe content within the same site is the kind Google really bags on according to them (Google themselves).

    Yes I do have both categories and archives checked off for non-indexing for that reason, however i still interlink to them for user navigation purposes.

    After all, keeping you on my site as long as possible is the name of the game, right? šŸ˜‰

    Dennis Edellā€™s last blog post..2 Updates Before You Flood Me With Emails šŸ˜‰

  60. BTW, I just checked a couple of links in the comments, and although there seem to be two links, both take you to the primary address left in the first link.

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  61. Hey IS, a great post, but unless I am mistake I don’t think that all commentluv blogs are necessarily dofollow blogs. I am pretty sure that many choose not to be.

    As for the double link thing, I must be the only dumb one here because I can’t get it to work.

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  62. @Lee There is so much to learn that collaborating only makes sense. If new bloggers knew there was so much involved they might never start! It is up to those of us who have been working at it the longest to share and make their path easier.

    I don’t know how I missed finding your blog before now. Our content is related and my readers should find your posts very useful. I’ve already linked several into existing posts and when I have time I’ll add some more. You’ll usually find them in Related Resources sections at the bottom of my posts.

    Where IS your recent guest post? I’ve tried – so far unsuccessfully – to locate it again. I’d love to share it with my readers and also to make sure I did share it at Twitter, FriendFeed and cliKball.

    Did you see my Twitter FriendFeed Quick Start? It contains some great links and also lists of the best bloggers on Twitter and FriendFeed. I’ll use it as the primary link (above) to this comment to make it easier to find.

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  63. @Andy Bailey Sorry for the delay. I rescued your latest comment from among 89 that ended up in Akismet. There was one other real comment in there which was captured because it was very short. I don’t know why Akismet grabbed yours; perhaps because it included the word SPAM?

    The reason I put a deep link to a particular post in the Website / URL field instead of in the body of comments is because a link in a comment will almost always get sent to either SPAM or held for moderation while one in the URL field won’t.

    I do usually mention that I linked to a post there and why I did it and in someone else’s blog it will always be related to that specific post. (Sometimes I will suggest another post a commentator might be interested in when doing it in this blog.) I shared a couple examples in a comment above.

    Did you see the post Dennis shared above by a major blogger suggesting it would be best to ALWAYS use a deep link instead of the main page for SEO purposes?

    Regarding first impressions: except for only seeing one post instead of excerpts from numerous recent posts there is no difference in this blog between a deep link and the primary URL.

    Most blogs today use plugins that show categories (usually with mouse-over descriptions the way they appear here) plus Recent Posts and many other plugins that offer indications of what else is on offer.

    I have a simple way of deciding whether something I may do is appropriate or not:

    1) Does it negatively impact anyone?
    2) Is it misleading or dishonest?
    3) Does it benefit others?

    If the answers are no, no, yes and I can not come up with any reason not to do it then it is ethical. If I were using this particular strategy to mislead, take advantage of, or SPAM anyone it would be unethical.

    If it is only used to offer additional relevant information I believe it benefits the greater good and is perfectly acceptable.

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  64. @Florida Web design: Yes, commenting does increase visitors – but commenting and then sharing the posts you visit and comment in is what REALLY makes the difference.

    @Martin – The methods I share here are always based on what has worked. There are more posts about increasing traffic here. Check out the categories and sub-categories in the right sidebar to see those and much, much more.

    @Bruno Thank you. I hope you’ll be back.

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  65. @Dennis Thanks for clarifying that the All-in-One-SEO plugin can be configured. My first blog was set up by an elite SEO company owner and he told me to link to posts or to the main page but never to category pages.

    While he was so brilliant it wasn’t always clear why he recommended certain actions I suspected those pages weren’t being indexed – probably because of a duplicate content issue?

    I don’t know why we wouldn’t want them to be indexed unless doing so causes duplicate content? How do you have that configured? Anyone else have an opinion on what is best?

    I would be very interested to see how you and also the most knowledgeable SEOs think whatever is in the latest version of WP compares to All-in-One-SEO or if there are other plugins they feel are better.

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  67. IĀ“ve not yet thought about the metioned ways to improve traffic – but it sounds more than logic to do so.

  68. Great tips for increasing blog traffic! An increase of over 50% in a month is quite impressive indeed.

    Thank you very much for stopping by and commenting on my blog. After seeing your posts here, I think I have as much to learn from you as you do from me! šŸ™‚

    Adding your blog to my favorites until I get a minute to sign up for FriendFeed.

    To Your Success,

    Lee

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  69. “The way I understand it, if you use All-In-One-SEO your category pages are not indexed so you want to link to either posts or your main page but NOT your category pages.”

    That’s up to the individual. Within the AIO plugin settings page is a tick box to choose if you want categories indexed or not.

    “It would make sense to use a category link with appropriate anchor text IF those pages were indexed.”

    This depends on why you’re linking. If it’s strictly for SEO purposes, then maybe. However if you’re say, interlinking within your blog for user navigation purposes (as a blogger should) then indexing makes no nevermind.

    In regards to keywordluv – the purpose of the plugin is to use name@keyword and it links the keyword. What aggravates bloggers the most is when they DO use the plugin and commenters STILL don’t use a name first….that’s the rudest of all.

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  70. I’m back on my pc now so no auto capitalized text!

    The reason I delete comments that use the URL to deep link to an article on their site is because the site url field (to me at least) is for linking to the site of the comment author, if there’s something special the author wants to link to then it should be within the comment itself or as part of the commentluv link.

    If it can’t be part of the comment then it isn’t relevant to the page that’s being commented on which changes the motivation for adding the comment to “what can I get for commenting here?” instead of “what can I add to the discussion here?”

    I don’t use deep links in the url field myself because what happens if the link gets visited and they don’t like the article? that’s their full impression of your site, one article.

    If you link to the root of your site then the visitor can see the whole blog and make an opinion from a bigger picture. Sure, I know a visitor could do that from a deep link but in my experience, a deep link is usually combined with a non value adding comment or insincere “well done” or “great site” or something that shows the comment author only scanned the article because they’re in a hurry to add their link to as many posts with their chosen keyword as possible.

    I guess I’m old fashioned! (or have been poisoned from too many spam comments in my years of blogging!)

    šŸ™‚

    Andy Baileyā€™s last blog post..A minor update on the way for WP CommentLuv

  71. @Dennis Thank you for the link and the headsup to rescue it from Akismet.The information in that article makes perfect sense so perhaps we should always be using posts instead of our main page.

    Here’s one more wrinkle: The way I understand it, if you use All-In-One-SEO your category pages are not indexed so you want to link to either posts or your main page but NOT your category pages.

    It would make sense to use a category link with appropriate anchor text IF those pages were indexed. I just tried to find the most distinctive of my categories and don’t see it so I believe they are NOT listed.

    So, it makes the most sense to start targeting a specific keyword phrase as anchor text in KeyWordLuv blogs and select a representative post to link to it.

    One thing that I have never understood is why blogs install dofollow and KeywordLuv but object to their commentators using keywords and pages in a way that most benefits them.

    Why NOT let them? What are the specific objections or reasons not to do so? I can not think of any.

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  72. A bit contradictory Andy, deeplinking the URL is the discussion…isn’t it?

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  73. Check spam, I just posted an article link.

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  75. @Andy Thank you for commenting, Andy. Could you share with us WHY you “always delete comments that use a deep link in the URL field!”? Are you assuming anyone who links to a specific page is selling something or ?

    To make it easier for others to see what we’re talking about, here are some examples of comments where I have used a specific page (the comment usually indicates WHY):

    https://www.growmap.com/super-friendfeed-users/#comment-2826
    Reply to @Chad: Currently the last comment on the page

    http://www.untwistedvortex.com/2009/03/16/what-kind-of-washing-machine-is-this/#comments – Linked to Local Listing Directories

    What does anyone else think? If you object to deep linking in the URL field could you tell us WHY? I do make an effort to remember and conform to any special comment policies or preferences held by any blogs I frequent.

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  76. This is a brilliant idea! I am always finding new ways to increase traffic. I might not get an increase of 50%, but 10-20% is still a great boost. Thanks for the post!

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  77. UPDATE: Andy sent me a DM at Twitter that he is away from his computer until tomorrow.

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  78. Oh sweet commentluv works when I comment on my blackberry!
    The method that you describe here is not frowned upon, as Dennis says,
    I told him how to do this from a long time ago and its something you’ll be
    Able to do as part of the new plugin, you’ll be able to register
    More than one site per account and have a selection of posts from
    Each one get returned. There will even be an option to add a specific anchor text
    With link to be returned as well as your event diggs
    Or stumbleupons or tweets!

    That being said though, I always delete comments that use a deep link
    In the URL field !

    Andy Baileyā€™s last blog post..A minor update on the way for WP CommentLuv

  79. I too do not see this as a big issue, the blog that has Comment Luv expects the name link and the post link, so what difference does the target make, none at all, not to me and I have comment luv on my blog as well.

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  80. No worries Grow. Ironically i sent an eail to Andy quite a while back specifically ASKING him, “how do I insert a deep-link into the URL field and still get commentluv to display the latest post” because sometimes it screws up.

    Since he replied with the exact requirements that have to be in place, he has absolutely no issues with it. šŸ™‚

    And neither should any sane blogger – especially if at least one of the two links is relevant to the post being commented on. For that too be the homepage, would be quite coincidental, wouldn’t you say? šŸ˜‰

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  81. @Boris I sent a DM to Andy at Twitter asking for his opinion. Hopefully he will have the time to read and understand what I’ve suggested and any concerns you or anyone else may have regarding changing the other link.

    I do hope you will come back and share what specific objections you have to offering another link instead of the home page. Perhaps I have missed a downside to this idea and if so I sincerely do wish to know what it is. Did you think I was suggesting some clandestine way to add an EXTRA link to a comment?

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  82. @Boris I don’t know Andy would mind but I can run it by him. There already are two links when we make comments in blogs using CommentLuv. All I’m doing is changing one of them from a link to the main page to a link to another post.

    Why would a blog be angered? I usually do this in order to share an older blog post that is more relevant to their current post.

    I’m not saying that which link you use increases traffic. It probably has minimal if any effect. It is commenting and then SHARING the posts of other bloggers that causes the increase because it sends THEIR post more traffic and the comment provides an opportunity for anyone reading it to consider visiting this blog too.

    Perhaps you (or other bloggers) can elaborate more on why you feel this would be a negative issue or suggest any reasons sharing another link instead of a home link would be a bad thing to do.

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  83. @Dennis That is good to know. It seemed logical to me and that tip was not the primary strategy in the post; just something I added that I believe I have mentioned in the past.

    @JR Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this too. Although the search engines may see links to posts as somewhat different than links to the main page of a blog I don’t know of any reason it would make a difference to any bloggers.

    I have seen one blog that prohibits deep linking and only allows links to the main page of a blog. They did not give any reason and I don’t know why they would care.

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  84. @John Those who use CommentLuv tend to be far more likely to comment – and since they are dofollow blogs those who participate also get SEO benefits.

    Google Reader is a very popular place to read and then share blogs so they send most bloggers quite a bit of traffic. FriendFeed and StumbleUpon can too – sometimes. You either get a little traffic or a WHOLE LOT of traffic.

    I once did a post about Paying it Forward on how one message, comment, or post can spread across the Internet.

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  85. I’ve never specifically targeted CommentLuv blogs, although I do have a preference for Disqus blogs because the comments themselves help to promote both your comment itself and the post by the original poster. I will need to check into CommentLuv a bit more.

    I tend to share posts via Google Reader, provided they show up within my feeds, but also use FriendFeed itself, StumbleUpon, and other sharing facilities. (My own posts end up on FriendFeed, and from there to Twitter, and sometimes to other places.)

    Thanks for the tips.

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  86. I hate to rain about the parade here I could not help but wonder how long will it take before Andy Bailey catches onto what is being suggested. I would think that he might eventually take action against blogs that are using this technique or tweak the plugin so this doesn’t occur

    Also do you really want to anger the Comment Luv blogs when the discover what you are doing? I use Comment Luv and I moderate my comments. If I saw this once I would likely just delete one link. If it happened a second time I would likely have thought it a bug in the plugin and contacted Andy.

    Now, having said all of that I admire the cleverness, but is being clever the best option to increase blog traffic? I have used Comment Luv Blogs for a specific marketing campaign and I got similar increased traffic results without using this method. Those results were because I took the time to leave useful comments and because of Comment Luv providing a link to a targeted blog post.

    Do we really wanted to be supporting actions that may cause blogs to remove this plugin?

    I like your blog a lot and I have recommended it often and it has sent you a fair amount of traffic. However, based on this post I am seriously considering removing all references to your blog from ours.

    Just because you can get away with something does it mean that you should? Also in closing I can not express how disappointed that I am to see this appear on your blog!

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  87. @Peter Lee Thank YOU for coming by and commenting. Whenever I visit your blog I share at least one of your posts at Twitter, FriendFeed and cliKball. Whenever you see new comments from me look for added traffic from those sources.

    Adding two links is something I first started doing when I wanted to share a highly relevant post that was not one of my last ten – so CommentLuv wouldn’t allow me to select it.

    The key is switching the primary link immediately before you submit the comment. You can’t give the CommentLuv system time to check it before you submit it.

    Leaving two links allows you to share one that is most relevant to that post plus the one you most want new potential visitors to see. We always leave two links as the primary link is whatever you use for CommentLuv (usually your blog home page). All I’m doing is switching that link to a specific post.

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